PINEHOUSEFILM Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2005, and its first feature film <SECRET SUNSHINE> directed by LEE Changdong, received critical and public fame with its powerful yet delicate depiction of a woman who’s quest to find her SECRET SUNSHINE. The actress of the movie, JEON Doyeon, earned an award for Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Its second film <POETRY> also d... expand

PINEHOUSEFILM Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2005, and its first feature film <SECRET SUNSHINE> directed by LEE Changdong, received critical and public fame with its powerful yet delicate depiction of a woman who’s quest to find her SECRET SUNSHINE. The actress of the movie, JEON Doyeon, earned an award for Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Its second film <POETRY> also directed by LEE Changdong, which received an award for Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The Director Byun seungwook's feature <THE CAT> was released in 2011. The next feature <HWAYI:A Monster Boy> was released in 2013 and as it attracted the public attention as an unusual and well-made thriller, the remake in Hollywood is in pre-production with American film Company. Recently <Doheeya:A Girl At My Door> was released and officially selected in Cannes Film Festival in the section of Un Certain Regard. PINEHOUSE Film is currently working in development of LEE Chandong’s project and <Powel> of the director Park Jung-bum. close

Seventeen years after appearing together in PARK Heung-sik’s romantic drama I Wish I Had a Wife, stars JEON DO-yeon and SUL Kyung-gu are reuniting for the upcoming film Birthday (working title). Marking the feature debut of former LEE Chang-dong assistant director LEE Jong-eun, the film focuses on the events of the Sinking of the MV Sewol on April 16, 2014. The film will follow a wife and husband ...

Eight years after his last film, acclaimed director LEE Chang-dong is finally returning with his sixth work Burning. YOO Ah-in has been confirmed for a lead role as has new comer JEON Jong-seo, who was plucked from auditions. The film is an adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story called Back Burning which was originally published in The New Yorker in 1992. Described as a mystery-thriller, the ...

Five Flavours Dishes up A GIRL AT MY DOOR and THE WICKED The Five Flavours Film Festival, Poland’s top event for East and Southeast Asian cinema, returns for its 9th edition this week and will present a pair of Korean films in its signature New Asian Cinema stream, while a pair of Korean genre titles also screened during a warm-up event last month in Warsaw. Still popular with programmers and vi...

LEE Joon-dong has been elected Vice Chairman of the Korea Film Council (KOFIC). “On October 31st, KOFIC elected LEE Joon-dong as Vice Chairman.” announced KOFIC. On October 23rd, new Vice Chairman LEE was selected for one of KOFIC’s seven new committees created by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister DO Jong-hwan) and will take charge of the council until October 22nd, 2019. Born ...